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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED238085 AUTHOR: Baugh, William H.; Stone, Joe A.
TITLE: Sex Differences in the Educator Labor Market. Final
Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 44 p.
ABSTRACT: This study examines both the existence and the
determinants of sex differences in teacher salaries and
mobility, administrative salaries, and promotions to
administrative positions. Longitudinal data on individual
careers in education were used, primarily for educators in
Oregon during the period 1971-81, but in some instances for
educators in New York during the 1970s. Little evidence is
found of sex discrimination in salaries of teachers in the
1970s, and only very small sex-related differences in wage
responsiveness and interdistrict mobility were noted.
Evidence on promotions to administrative positions indicates
that in the early 1970s female teachers were significantly
less likely to be promoted than similarly qualified male
teachers, but that by the late 1970s the difference was no
longer significant. In addition, formal index measures of
discrimination declined by about half during the same
period. By 1980 no evidence is found of salary
discrimination among administrators, when experience in
education is allocated into teaching and administrative
components. These findings suggest that equal employment
opportunity and affirmative action efforts initiated during
the 1970s contributed to a reduction in employment
discrimination against women in education. (Author/MLF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Employment-Experience; Faculty-Mobility;
Longitudinal-Studies; Multivariate-Analysis; Principals-;
Sex-Differences; Tables-Data
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrators-; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Promotion-Occupational; *Salary-Wage-Differentials;
*Sex-Discrimination; *Teachers-
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